Old shows, I know. But still. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346205#Comment_346205Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:54:11 -0600StefanJ
Sherlock RIGHT NOW. As I write this. The second episode, with the murdered banker and the young woman artifact restorer.

And yes, excellent stuff.

Cumberbatch! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346220#Comment_346220Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:42:31 -0600FlabyoOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346258#Comment_346258
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346258#Comment_346258Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:59:42 -0600Vornaskottihttp://butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com/post/31079561065/the-problem-with-the-big-bang-theory ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346263#Comment_346263Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:14:12 -0600William Joseph DunnI started watching Luther and I already think that the Alice Morgan character is one of the better villains put on T.V. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346274#Comment_346274Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:50:10 -0600Cat Vincent
Fringe & Grimm and even Elementary (and finding out how they'll kill Last Resort) my main happy is tonight's return of Person of Interest. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346294#Comment_346294Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:55:59 -0600NorbertAlso: I really liked the first 2/3 seasons of Big Bang. Now not so anymore. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346297#Comment_346297Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:04:49 -0600VornaskottiWell, I enjoyed the series at first, it was fun to see science that wasn't just technobabble and apart from MMORPGs, writing that seemed to understand the pop culture topics and it got a lot of laughs out of me (YMMV, of course). Lately it's just gotten... well, mean in a way that doesn't really appeal to me. I don't really feel I'm in the crosshairs of that meanness (and wouldn't really care), but it feels a certain kind of warmness towards the characters has leeched out of the writing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346298#Comment_346298Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:28:05 -0600khaoohsWas Last Resort officially cancelled? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346313#Comment_346313Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:19:16 -0600D.J.
Last Resort was officially cancelled, yes.

@Vorn & WillThe most apt comparison I've heard regarding Big Bang Theory / Community is this:Big Bang Theory is a show about normal people watching normal people pretend to be nerds.Community is a show about nerds watching nerds pretend to be normal people.

Archer returning should also be a lot of fun. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346317#Comment_346317Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:45:37 -0600trini_naenae
right and it is one of the reasons they love it so much. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346318#Comment_346318Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:51:06 -0600William Joseph DunnOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346320#Comment_346320
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346320#Comment_346320Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:09:14 -0600Cat VincentOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346360#Comment_346360
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346360#Comment_346360Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:09:50 -0600D.J.
That is just part of what makes it so great. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346674#Comment_346674Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:31:42 -0600Cat Vincent
Elementary just levelled up, big time.

I've been enjoying the show's revisionist take on the Holmes/Watson dynamic (and thoroughly enjoying the performances of Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu in the roles), but the actual case-of-the-week aspect has been mostly weak. This weeks's episode - simply titled M - concentrated instead on a striking variation on the Holmes canon.

Spoilery bit:

In short: The show established early that Irene Adler is dead, which caused Holmes's drug addiction. This week brought the erstwhile serial killer responsible to New York.Except... he's not a serial killer. He's an assassin. And he didn't kill Adler - he was banged up in Brixton nick at the time.

The killer's name is Sebastian Moran. He killed on orders from a man called Moriarty.And bugger me, he's played superbly by Vinnie Jones.

Also really liked the last ep of Elementary. Been waiting for this show to engage in some more recognisably canonical shenanigans, and Jones was great. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346974#Comment_346974Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:23:16 -0600StefanJThis was a solid second-tier show, but with some really great performances. Particularly Straithern and the guy who played Gary. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346990#Comment_346990Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:12:48 -0600MagnulusAnother good one to check out for British Sci Fi is The Fades. Dark, funny and some stellar casting. Oddly, a second series has not been commissioned. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=346991#Comment_346991Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:21:43 -0600Steve ToaseOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347002#Comment_347002
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347002#Comment_347002Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:23:57 -0600cjkoger
Come on SyFy, you going the way of Fox now?

Hmmm, I'll have to see if I can track down Utopia in the States. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347067#Comment_347067Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:36:59 -0600Cat Vincent
Fringe ending: heavy on sentiment, light on everything else. Couple of nice callbacks to early Fringe events - but I swear they could have got some actual plot in there if they'd just halved the length of each sappy scene. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347110#Comment_347110Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:30:55 -0600Foamhead

old/original Walter re-emerging being one of the best.

Overall, I was actually relieved it was done with after the last episode: too tenuously-plotted, too rushed and, as Cat & J.Brennan have already said, too schmaltzy.

So...what's next? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347112#Comment_347112Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:24:47 -0600johnjones
The Following and Zero Hour, though I don't know if I'll stay with them, especially Zero Hour. I know I'm prejudging it some, but after all the gun nonsense from conspiracy theorists who put imaginary future Hitler before real present day dead children, I don't know that I want to watch a show about conspiracies. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347195#Comment_347195Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:55:49 -0600johnjones
The Following and I doubt I'll be following it much further. The serial killer with a cult annoyed me on The Mentalist and looks to do so here. It's on network TV, so it's not really going to have the leeway to go really dark. Also, the premise relies on the idea that everyone except the serial killer and, occasionally, Kevin Bacon's character, is kind of stupid and/or bad at their jobs. Castle is one of the only shows I can think of where the non-cop is highly useful and the cops are competent on a regular basis. I can forgive this a little easier in Elementary because the consultant is Sherlock Holmes and pretty much everybody should come off looking a little stupid next to Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile The Following seems to have stuffed every serial killer cop-on-the-edge cliche into a bloody sack that's not quite gross enough to draw FCC fines. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347199#Comment_347199Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:16:13 -0600William Joseph DunnOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347295#Comment_347295
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347295#Comment_347295Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:03:40 -0600Cat Vincent
Last Resort airs its last episode.

In better news, Nikita came back last night and continues to be one of the most under-rated action shows around. It's like Alias should have been in later seasons, minus Rambaldi.

And tonight's Archer guest stars Timothy Olyphant ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347583#Comment_347583Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:03:51 -0600Cat Vincent
Utopia just gets better - at least as far as episode 3. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347587#Comment_347587Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:51:14 -0600William Joseph Dunn
Utopia airing in the U.S. now? I did a search on my cable guide and can't find it. I really want to check it out. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347601#Comment_347601Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:23:39 -0600William Joseph DunnI wouldn't count on any more YJ. CN could care less what the fans want. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347602#Comment_347602Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:30:47 -0600DavidLejeuneDIsney XD is probably cancelling Tron: Uprising as well. Neither channel seems to know what to do with YA action cartoons any more, so they keep dicking around with their scheduling so they can't find an audience. It's really frustrating to watch from the outside. CN needs to bring back Toonami so they have a dedicated home for this stuff again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347604#Comment_347604Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:32:59 -0600William Joseph Dunn
Tron: Uprising and Motorcity are also cancelled. Shame. I liked those too. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347624#Comment_347624Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:23:42 -0600FinagleOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347626#Comment_347626
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347626#Comment_347626Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:06:24 -0600fleckyI'd sort of gone of Ricky Gervais over recent years, as I really used to like The Office and Extras. I caught his new show, Derek, on Channel 4 last night; probably because it reminded me of being here in rehab (a bit), but more because the humour is dodgy and sick, I found it laugh-out-loud funny. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347673#Comment_347673Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:50:57 -0600InvincibleMJokes on Jokes on Jokes combined with actual emotion and the stinger of all stingers?

Get outta town and find me a better show. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347682#Comment_347682Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:36:23 -0600Will Couper
Utopia is really incredibly good. It's uncompromising, funny and unsettling. The protagonists are intelligent and naive without becoming irritating, and when any of them become irritating a very good reason is presented for it. Just like the characters we've learned more and more about what's going on as the series has progressed – it doesn't feel like there's been a minute wasted.

I kind of hope this is a one-off series, because of my fear of television's love of dragging things out for too long.

The mysterious, never-seen film crew that has been documenting the goings-on at Dunder Mifflin have not only appeared on screen, they're interacting with the characters.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347726#Comment_347726Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:20:54 -0600Steve ToaseTrailer for first episode of new Black Mirror ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347775#Comment_347775Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:37:08 -0600badbearAm finding Utopia deeply disturbing. In a good way. Nice to see Curtis from Misfits in something else too, after that show has gone so depressingly downhill - I just watched the latest season and it was pants. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347776#Comment_347776Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:53:57 -0600Cat Vincent
Misfits season either, but new girl has promise & Joe Gilgun still gets the laughs.

The upcoming combo of Utopia & Black Mirror makes C4 the best place for actual quality genre telly.

Person of Interest did a clever soft reboot last night, eliminating one area of threat while adding one, possibly two others.Nikita continues to be one of the most under-rated spy shows of all time, honestly. And Archer was pants-wettingly good, full of robot jokes.

Next for me, the Spartacus ep wherein arrives one Julius Caesar. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347785#Comment_347785Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:12:48 -0600nelzbubSet in Victorian period Whitechapel, the series started strong and keeps getting better. Great characters, gripping storylines, grimey streets, big beards and proper hats. I'm really loving it and looking forward to tonights episode.

I'm intrigued by the sound of "Utopia", not least because it is also the name of the coffee shop where I work. Hope I'll be able to get it in Holland soon. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347805#Comment_347805Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:23:19 -0600Will Couper

Amid rumors of cancellation, on January 14, 2013 producer Edward Kitsis countered the rumor by stating: "I don't know what the future [of Tron: Uprising] is now. I know at the present, I can say we need more viewers."

I really hope it wasn't cancelled, as it's beautiful and actually quite compelling in general. More compelling than Legacy, in my opinion. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347824#Comment_347824Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:07:16 -0600DavidLejeuneAnd if it wasn't in the Disney XD upfronts, then it's, at a minimum, not back this year. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347826#Comment_347826Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:17:23 -0600TFThe last ep with the Google glasses was fine I thought

The first episode was class though - looking forward to this run. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347829#Comment_347829Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:46:55 -0600city creed
House of CardsYuss."You might think so... I couldn't possibly comment."This made me happier than is reasonable. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347838#Comment_347838Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:05:57 -0600William Joseph Dunn
"I keep reading rumours that they're putting it on hiatus to re-work the story for subsequent seasons so it'll bridge better with the sequel to Legacy (which is in the early scripting stages),.."

That means they have a script pick up. It keeps the writers on hold, but the artist are now scattered to the wind and are working on other shows. The team that made that show what it is, is gone. Unfortunately suits tend to look at us as interchangeable. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347865#Comment_347865Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:25:17 -0600nelzbub

Did I mention it's set in Whitechapel? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347866#Comment_347866Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:37:12 -0600Will Couper

Will ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347874#Comment_347874Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:34:15 -0600OddcultI really like Tom and Hal, but am not sold on Alex yet, because she doesn't really seem to have a motivation beyond 'pass on'.

Just curious - does the US version have equivalents of Tom and Hal yet? Or are they still on their versions of the original cast? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347950#Comment_347950Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:22:20 -0600johnjonesI'm probably about thirty minutes into The Americans and so far the person who's given the best advice has been Colonel Rape Defector, who's pretty much told the husband to take the money and defect. I guess they did the rape story to really establish the defector as an evil guy who deserves what he's getting. It's revealing that Keri Russel is pretty good at playing a fanatic semi-psychopath. I have two main problems with the show. First, it's essentially asking me to actively root for people who are trying to subvert and destroy my country. Second, the show is set in 1981, which means that the Soviet Union is less than a decade from crapping out anyway.

I suppose I'd have preferred it if they'd set the show in maybe the 50s', when the Cold War was always on the verge of turning nuclear hot or maybe during the late 80s, early 90s when the Soviet Union actually is crapping out and there's a lot more tension in the stay or go question, especially with kids involved.

It's interesting that Elementary has had episodes devoted in part to the concepts of two new shows, this one and The Following. Elementary essentially showed a version of the series finale for The Americans by having the KGB-wife killed, her husband and kid disappearing into witness protection and their handler going down for murder. Meanwhile, Elementary dismissed the entire serial killer plot idea with "You've met serial murderers. They're duller than the Queen's Jubilee. Mouth breathers and chronic onanists, the lot of them." Even better, the show viciously mocked the profilers by having Holmes say "She's a buffoon. All profilers are. A snake-oil salesman who casts maladjusted closet cases as criminal geniuses in the media. The profilers, in turn, can be super geniuses when the killers are caught." ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347952#Comment_347952Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:53:58 -0600DavidLejeune
I guess they did the rape story to really establish the defector as an evil guy who deserves what he's getting.It also establishes how deep Russell's character's loyalty goes: despite how horrifically she was treated during training she will not even for a second consider defection.

I think '81 is actually the perfect time for the show. The Cold War was just starting to wind down when Reagan was elected and started to crank up a lot of the paranoia and fear of the Soviets that the general public was largely over after decades of Red Scare madness, while the upper echelons of the Russian government and their intelligence communities pretty much know that there's not much gas left in the USSR's tank. Invading Afghanistan was their last gasp, and they're two years in and it's not going at all how they planned. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=347953#Comment_347953Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:17:13 -0600Yaboo Chingoa
Six Sigma Wheel of Domination -- what the hell is eficationication, anyway? Oh. "finular analysis". Of course.

I especially loved that they confirmed Kenneth's, uh, backstory, without explaining it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348246#Comment_348246Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:12:35 -0600TFA solid story well told, proper characters and a well realised future.

For my sins, I've been watching Derek. I can't help but laugh at the sick bloke with the constant can of Special Brew. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348592#Comment_348592Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:14:38 -0600johnjones
Elementary, especially the most recent episode with Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock's "proposal" to Lucy Lui's Watson. Just a lovely nuanced scene. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348602#Comment_348602Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:48:45 -0600StefanJ
Elementary is now officially the show I save for last on my weekend DVR-catch-up-viewing. That means it is my favorite.

I'm also watching Sherlock via Netflix. I like that a lot too. I think it has somewhat superior talent, but I don't see the two shows as competition. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348643#Comment_348643Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:25:23 -0600Steve ToaseOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348646#Comment_348646
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348653#Comment_348653Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:39:05 -0600johnjones
Zero Hour and I have decided to enjoy it. That will be difficult, since it was essentially an overwrought, incoherent, silly-ass mess, but I believe that I have found a way.

Back in the 1990s there was a paper and pencil roleplaying game called TORG. The concept of the game was that various other dimensions were invading the earth and transforms parts of it, including the inhabitants of those invaders, into beings like themselves, complete with their own cultures, magic and laws of a nature. So, one could take a perfectly functional M-16 into the Living Land, a place of dinosaurs, miracles and lizard people only to find the weapon would not fire because the Technological axiom of the Living Land was too low and primitive to work. You also tended to forget what that green stuff in your pockets was since currency was also a little too advanced.

One of the fan-made supplements for the game detailed Illithicar. I have therefore chosen to believe that Zero Hour takes place in Illithicar so that I can watch the show without constantly interrupting myself with "Well, that's just stupid. "Wait a minute, why didn't she just..." or "Oh, for fuck's sake!" ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348654#Comment_348654Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:07:44 -0600James CunninghamOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348657#Comment_348657
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348800#Comment_348800Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:10:54 -0600johnjones
Zero Hour makes me keep hearing Jon Voight in my head. "And that will lead to another clock and that will lead to another clock!" ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348808#Comment_348808Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:38:57 -0600D.J.

Which is pretty much how it turns out anyway. Also, if the Observers never existed, doesn't that mean that September was never there to disrupt Walternate discovering the cure for Peter and thus Walter never would have crossed over to save him so basically the entire show wouldn't have happened? I mean, I can forgive plot holes, but less so when the plot hole is such that it renders the entire show non-existent. I also really want to know what happened to Broyle's sick son in the alternate universe.

Oh, it also didn't help that every episode of season 5 was a fetch-quest.

The way I understood it the time change didn't occur until 2015, when Walter would disappear and the Observers would fail to invade. So, everything that happened before that date (September saving Walter, etc) would still happen. Please don't ask me how that would work because all I can do is say "Science is Magic!"

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348830#Comment_348830Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:01:50 -0600William Joseph Dunn
"House of Cards" on Netflix. I'm hoping it gets another season not only because I want to see where they go with it, but I hope that this is the beginning of how television shows are produced and shown. I think the networks have had their day and it's time for a change. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348831#Comment_348831Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:13:30 -0600D.J.Okay, well that makes at least a little bit more sense. A little. Doesn't change my opinion on the season, though. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348833#Comment_348833Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:31:46 -0600johnjones
only one season, the fourth, actually occurred. Season one-three were overwritten and season five effectively never took place. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348973#Comment_348973Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:34:23 -0600MagnulusOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348984#Comment_348984
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=348984#Comment_348984Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:14:01 -0600TFI re-upped my subscription to Netflix just to support such sentiments! - I'll be cancelling again this month and be back again for Arrested Development!!!

It's interesting when you compare Netflix productions to the Amazon studios announcements which gives the impression that their content is going to be very middle of the road. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349011#Comment_349011Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:04:39 -0600William Joseph DunnOn the Tee-Vee: January-March 2013http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349032#Comment_349032
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349032#Comment_349032Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:29:38 -0600Magnulus
The photos from Being Human look like SUCH an American Version Of A British Show. They all just look broody and... and... AMERICAN. Bleh. Even Witwer looks boring. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349063#Comment_349063Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:39:44 -0600TFBut the ending made sense in the context of the story credit - that it was originally meant as a Nathan Barley story; and in that context I think the tone of it would have felt more cohesive. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349064#Comment_349064Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:43:22 -0600tapheadIn case any of you want some similarly bleak anime, I can recommend Texhnolyze (never mind that spelling, it makes sense in context). It's from the folks who made Serial Experiments Lain (also recommended) and it is a rather impressive mix of New Weird and Post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk, with heavy heavy symbolism to go with. Pretty much all the anime tropes are subverted if they show up at all. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349102#Comment_349102Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:37:34 -0600imaginarypeopleI just watched the new black mirror. Yeah, it was pretty depressing. Not bad, just depressing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349394#Comment_349394Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:04:49 -0600D.J.
Whose Line? is coming back. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349603#Comment_349603Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:42:50 -0600FoamheadRobert Downey Jr to turn 'The Entire History of You' episode of Black Mirror into film

re: Utopia: did anyone else notice when Channel 4 were hawking the DVD of the series during the end credits that the cover decribes it as "Series One"?

Via the YouTube info box for what I'm guessing is Series 1. Never heard of the show. How badly do I need to see this? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349765#Comment_349765Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:07:17 -0600johnjones
Grimm is finally back after four months of absence and I happy with Fridays again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349790#Comment_349790Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:48:55 -0600Cat Vincent@johnjones - Yeah - warts & all, Grimm is a lot of fun. And I'll put money down you won't get a funnier line reading this year than Silas Michael Weir simply saying "Why??" ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349808#Comment_349808Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:28:40 -0500Oxbrow
Being Human (UK). It had some great moments in its run.

... And apparently there's an epilogue to be released on the DVD which changes the meaning of the ending. Cheeky.

I got mixed feelings about this series of Being Human. I really liked Tom and Hal and thought the actors did a brilliant job with them, but going for apocalypse level storylines missed what was really great about Being Human in the first place and didn't really do justice to the subtle way that the metaphors were originally treated and the actual palpable angst that the earlier episodes genuinely communicated. It was probably the right choice to end it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=349831#Comment_349831Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:44:25 -0500Miranda's Eyes
Lost Girl, which has a nice Buffy-ish vibe to it courtesy of leads Anna Silk and Zoie Palmer as respectively the kick-ass succubus and her doctor girlfriend plus Ksenia Solo as the best friend who brings on the one-liners like nobody's business.

This week's brought a lot of plot points to a (brutal) head, had some of the most gorgeously shot scenes I've ever seen on telly... and they brought back my theme song for a rousing celebration scene. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10951&Focus=351032#Comment_351032Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:22:50 -0500johnjones
Castle was pretty great but I suppose it's time to close this thread. ]]>